Introduction to Data Analysis with R

Day 1: Welcome to the workshop

Selina Baldauf

Freie Universität Berlin - Theoretical Ecology

October 15, 2023

Who am I?

💻 Scientific programmer @theoretical ecology group
🎓 PhD in dryland ecology
👩‍🏫 Teaching R, Git, good scientific practice, …

I’m using a lot for …

… data analysis

… ecological modelling

… writing documents

…. workflow automation

…

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Workshop topics

Image adapted from Wickham & Grolemund: R for Data Science

Day1 Introduction to R and RStudio and data import

Day2 Data transformation and visualization with the tidyverse

Day3 Cleaning data and statistical tests

Day 4 Bring your own data

Schedule and Organization

📅 16.10.2023 - 17.10.2023 from 🕘 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
📅 30.10.2023 - 31.10.2023 from 🕘 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
🍜 ~ 12 a.m. - 1 p.m., ☕ in between
📌 We will meet in the General meeting on Webex


Input sessions

  • Presentation and demonstration of a topic
  • Some examples

Tasks

  • Solve them in small groups

Joint discussion of tasks & questions

Material

  • All material can be found on the workshop’s website

    • Presentations, Tasks, Solutions, Additional resources

  • You can download slides and R Scripts from there

  • Website will stay online after the workshop

Bring your own data

On the last workshop day, you can work with your own research data. I will also provide some real life data sets from different topics.

Learning by doing

  • Get started using R for your own analyses

  • Use any of the methods from the course or try new things, …

  • Present/discuss your results, questions and problems at the end of the day

Bring your own data

  • Keep the last workshop day in mind during the next days

    • Take a mental note if you learn something that is applicable to your data

    • Think of questions that you would like to answer for your data set

  • Add your name and some details on what you plan to do in this joint table

Before we get started I

  • Help each other if possible

    • Have an eye on the chat

  • All questions and comments are welcome

  • Feedback is welcome

    • Evaluation at the end of the workshop

Before we get started II

How to use Webex teams

  • General channel for our joint meetings and chat
  • Groups 1-4 for group work
    • Group spaces have their own chat and meetings
    • Use the chat in the groups for questions
    • Meet in your groups and solve the tasks jointly
  • Please always have a look at the general chat during the tasks

Now you (5 min)

Let’s try the Webex groups

  • Go into your groups and start a meeting there
  • Say hello to your team briefly
    • What do you study and what types of data analysis do you do?
  • Come back to the general meeting when I write in the general chat

Before we get started III

Did anyone have problems installing R and RStudio?


Download and install R from https://cran.r-project.org

Download and install RStudio from https://www.posit.co

Selina Baldauf // Welcome to the workshop